Towards commercialising cypress as a high-value plantation forest species

Report Date: March 2017
Author: Dean Satchell, Sustainable Forest Solutions, R.D. 1 Kerikeri, Northland 0294
+64 21 2357554


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Unnamed C. macrocarpa clone, 882.319, Dudley's Ashley trees

Site Year Number measured/
total number planted
Growth & form Health Overall
score
South Canterbury, Waimate 1998 17/40 5.6 7.0 6.3

Numbers measured/planted: 17/40

Form issues include wobbly and wonky form, stem kinks, broken tops and heavy branching. One tree with stem canker and one tree with foliar canker.